F... The Crusade

This photograph represents Anne Vinogradoff’s artistic challenge to established religion’s inherent role in conflict through the ages. Her statement is captured perfectly in this unique definition. Her work describes, with an impertinent clarity, the juxtaposition between the soft and sensuous and the harsh brittle reality of war. The skillful play of light and the signature matt black, perfectly highlight and illustrate the artist’s comment. The ‘mooning’ by female flesh of the male dominated world of conflict and war, defies the oxymoron of ‘religious war’ and its attempt to make tolerable what is intolerable.

The aesthetic of this haunting image was inspired by the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris where Anne was a dancer. It is homage to its founder, Alain Bernardin, who created a place where women could be perpetually admired and celebrated.